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nephrosclerosis

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós) English nephro- English sclerosis English nephrosclerosis From nephro- (“kidney”) + sclerosis (“hard”).

nephroscleroses (plural)

arteriolonephrosclerosis

nephrosclerotic

What does nephrosclerosis mean?: arteriosclerosis of the renal arteries
Where does nephrosclerosis come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *negʷʰrós Proto-Hellenic *nekʷʰrós Ancient Greek νεφρός (nephrós) English nephro- English sclerosis English nephrosclerosis From nephro- (“kidney”) + sclerosis (“hard”).

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